Two rabbis were assaulted in the middle of the day on one of the central streets in Odessa, Ukraine. Fishel Chichelnitzky and David Feldman, who work at an Odessa yeshiva, and three yeshiva students were attacked by five middle-aged men on Aug. 20.
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